Nagaland F&CS deptt informs FPS operators

Food & Civil Supplies (F&CS) department has informed all the fair price shop (FPS) operators (both village council run FPS /urban FPS) that manual mode of transaction had been completely stopped.
In a press release, the F&SC department stated that henceforth transaction performed only on online mode or partial offline mode through ePoS devices were accounted.
The department stated that non-transacted quantity would remain as closing balance (CB), which would be carried forward (CF) to the subsequent month and reconciled/adjusted accordingly.
The department informed that reconciliation of the CB had been initiated from the month of November 2025 allocation with the CB of September, 2025, adding that the same would be continued henceforth.
The changes have been made as per the directive during the NE conference held in Guwahati under the chairmanship of joint secretary, ministry of consumer affairs, DoFPD, on January 30 and 31, 2025,
As per the policy of the Government of India, the department has migrated its earlier applications utilised under NFSA Act, 2013 to SMART PDS wherein a new module, Integrated Aadhaar enabled Supply Chain Management (IAeSCM) is being followed. Under the module, systematic steps starting from Indent generation to FCI and issue of Release Order by FCI up to ePoS transaction by the FPS have to be performed sequentially.
As such, all the stakeholders like the department, FCI, PDC incharges, FPS operators and Ration Card holders play a vital role to complete the flow chain of the Supply Chain Management system which functions on real-time mode. The department stated any disruption in the sequential system adversely affects the normal flow.